Motivational Quotes

Children

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

- Friedan, Betty

Best Quotes about Children

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Decter, Midge

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

La Bruyere, Jean De

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

Ruskin, John

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That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

Greg Garcia

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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

Whitehorn, Katharine

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Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

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There is no sinner like a young saint.

Behn, Aphra

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Angelou, Maya

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Friedan, Betty

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Wilde, Oscar

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Baldwin, James

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

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Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Ruskin, John

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What is done to children, they will do to society.

Menninger, Karl A.

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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

Campbell, Beatrix

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Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

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It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Bergor, Ben

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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Children need models rather than critics.

Joubert, Joseph

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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.

Wilmot, John

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Torrie, Alfred

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Bradshaw, John

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia